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* This type of issue happens frequently in the US, the motive behind the killing is because the murderer has made huge loss in stocks just show how bad the situation in US is *


China student decapitated in US campus

WASHINGTON - A FEMALE Chinese graduate student has been decapitated by a fellow student at Virginia Tech, the scene of the worst school shooting in US history in 2007, police said on Thursday.

At approximately 7pm on Wednesday (8am Singapore time), Ms Xin Yang, a 22-year-old graduate student from Beijing, was killed at an Au Bon Pain cafe on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, university officials said.

They added that emergency contact records suggest that Ms Yang and the student who murdered her, Mr Haiyang Zhu from Ningbo, China, knew each other. According to officials, witnesses said Zhu, 25, attacked Yang with a knife.

'There were seven witnesses in the cafe. There had been no argument, no shouting' when the young woman was attacked, said Virginia Tech spokesman Mark Owczarski, confirming that Ms Yang and been decapitated.

Associated Press reported that police had arrived in the cafe to find Zhu holding Ms Yang's head in his hands.

This is not the first time that killings have happened on the US campus.

In April 2007, Cho Seung Hui, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech student born in South Korea, shot 32 fellow classmates and teachers to death before killing himself.

'The tragic attack on campus this week has no doubt revived terrible memories for countless members of the Hokie family,' Virginia Governor Tim Kaine said in a statement offering his condolences.

Zhu was charged with first-degree murder and was being held at a county jail. He had not had a record with university or local police, the school indicated.

Ms Yang had arrived at Virginia Tech in early January to begin studies in accounting. Zhu was a PhD graduate student in agriculture and applied economics.






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